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Fed's Kroszner Urges Banks to Have Strong Risk Discipline, "Capital Buffers"

Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner called on banks to exercise "strong risk discipline" and to have larger "capital buffers" to protect them against potential future crises.

Speaking in Geneva, Switzerland on 'Assessing the Potential for Instability in Financial Markets' on Monday, Kroszner said that banks can reinforce safeguards by restructuring their trading contracts with additional or various types of collateral and using "stress tests".

"Banks should hold higher liquidity and capital buffers, since the enhancements I just noted are still no guarantee against future market distress that could cause correlated and cascading losses among market participants," Kroszner said. "Now is the time for banks to establish good risk management policies addressing the issues I have just discussed, so that strong risk discipline is codified."

Written by CEP News European Staff in Frankfurt and edited by Nancy Girgis
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